Detached from: California and its gold regions : with a geographical and topographical view of the country, its mineral and agricultural resources / by Fayette Robinson. New York : Stringer & Townsend, 1849; issued folded to 19 x 12 cm and bound opposite title page.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by J.H. Colton in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."
Hand colored to show overland routes from Independence, Misssouri to Oregon and California, and, through Mexico, from southern Texas to the Gila River in Arizona, from Vera Cruz to Acapulco, and across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C.
Inset maps (12 x 7 cm. and 18 x 9 cm.): Map of the gold region, California -- From New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn.
Inset view (10 x 13 cm): Pyramid Lake, Upper California.
Includes distance table.
For variant issue with added imprint "Printed at Ackerman's rooms, 120 Fulton St. N.Y." see: Ladd, R.S. Maps showing explorers' routes (1962), no. 51; Wheat, C.I. Maps of the California gold region (1949), no. 70

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